Quote of the day:
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
- Douglas Adams
At any rate, we are always learning about something. It’s been some time ever since my last post which apparently goes back to 24th August. A lot has gone on in these few weeks like a bunch of holidays, preparation for AS exams, AS trial exams, and more things in typical plain old life itself. As much as I told myself to blog a little more often, I couldn’t bring myself to it. What is this supposed to mean? My laziness is being taken to a whole new level? Or do I really have that few things to write about? I can’t tell myself, but what remains true is that I need to keep writing if this whole project were to carry on further.
For one, the 2011 remake of Hana Kimi has ended somewhere in the recent weeks. Apparently it was one episode shorter than its previous counterpart. Not that I’m unhappy about it or anything but then again I wish I could see my idol a little more in action. So much for Maeda keeping short hair now. Ratings were low as it was throughout the other episodes; now that I wish I could do something about it. Related AKB news include a recent じゃんけん大会 (Janken Taikai) or a Rock-Paper-Scissors tournament which was held to determine the 16-member lineup for the upcoming 24th single later in December and what better way to clear the competition by having Shinoda Mariko to come out top. Among the sadder things include Maeda and Yuko both losing in their first rounds. Other than that, a 23rd single is due release on 26th October, yet I already have a slightly shorter version on that. I also finally took the time to download the entire ここにいたこと album in which 3 of the 10 original songs in the album made it into my self-burned CD.
That’s pretty much what I have for now regarding AKB. Not as little as I thought I had. The next update would be all-college. First off, my trial results turned out much worse than what I expected. There were no A grades and the highest was just two Bs coming from physics and maths. The other two subjects were graded C, for thinking skills and E for chemistry no thanks the blasted organic component of the exam which covered at least a third of the paper. From the time of post, I’ve left another 5 days before the actual AS exams and the first paper is the chemistry practical one. Not that one can actually practice on that paper but I haven’t been doing my share of work as of late. Procrastinating more and more each day will only lead to a heap of work to cover things up. Long story short, must work, or else.
Next thing came my birthday which was as plain as ever. All went pretty normal just like every year. A simple cake, a tired day from school which is now college, and a random gift out of nowhere. While the Vios itself was counted a much earlier gift, I got a Sony S-Frame anyway when I woke up from my evening nap. It was a digital photo frame which supported all sorts of input and had 2 GB internal memory as well. I took the opportunity to transfer at least 700 of my pictures from when me and my brother were in Japan. The only downside to it is that for it to work, it needed an input power source. Since there’s no space to put it for now, it remains unpowered in my room.
Time for the rant section. I can’t understand why dogs, not literally, exist in this world that we live in. It’s been a strongly established fact that humans are selfish, but why do some have to be that and be stupid? I hate that some people have nothing better to do other than to disturb others’ lives and the worst part is that they always get away with it. Something needs to be done about these people and it’s not gonna need only the general public, but even authorities need to take action on this or we will all perish very soon. I don’t understand it. Why do they do that? Why do they need to make people suffer? If peace and simplicity will not work, we use violence to solve the problem. However, advice has said over a billion times, violence never resolves anything. Fine, then what do we use to resolve it? War is necessary for one to win. No matter how one tries to dodge it, it will be forever inevitable if one side remains stubborn. I can only hope something changes soon, for I really cannot live this kind of quiet lifestyle already.
